Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Gender mainstreaming : good practices from the Asia Pacific region

Gibb, Heather | cop. 2001
  • Author(s): Gibb, Heather
  • Publisher: North-South institute [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: gender mainstreaming, development projects, asia and the pacific
The book will assist APEC fora in becoming familiar with key concepts in gender mainstreaming. It draws on case studies to illustrate how and why to include gender in their work in promoting small and medium-size enterprises, science and technology, and sustainable food production.

Gender and democracy : no shortcuts to power

Goetz, Anne Marie | 2009
  • Author(s): Goetz, Anne Marie
  • Publisher: openDemocracy news analysis
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: gender equality, democracy, women, political representation, political participation
Affirmative action is necessary, but insufficient, for building a sustained and representative female presence in politics, and it can only be a temporary measure, it is argued in this article. So what will it take to build democracies free from gender bias?

Who answers to women? : gender & accountability : progress of the world's women 2008/2009

Goetz, Anne Marie | 2008
  • Author(s): Goetz, Anne Marie
  • Publisher: United nations development fund for women (UNIFEM)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women's status, governance, political participation, social justice, women's rights
UNIFEM's Progress of the World's Women 2008/09 provides an overview of women's status worldwide along with an in-depth analysis of the various aspects of accountability to women showing that a deficit of accountability is a powerful constraint on realizing women's rights and achieving MDGs.

Voices of elected women panchayat members from Bihar

Gogoi, Aparajita and Mukhopadhyay, Sudipta and Narayanan, Chitra and Ojha, Sandeep and Ahsan, Mohammad and Kar, Jaydeep | cop. 2010
  • Author(s): Gogoi, Aparajita and Mukhopadhyay, Sudipta and Narayanan, Chitra and Ojha, Sandeep and Ahsan, Mohammad and Kar, Jaydeep
  • Publisher: Centre for development and population activities (CEDPA)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, panchayat, leadership, capacity building, reproductive health
The PAHEL project builds the leadership & advocacy skills of women elected to panchayats (local councils) in Patna, India, to improve reproductive health services in their communities. In this book, women leaders trained in PAHEL, reflect on their work as change makers in their communities.

Beyond rule of law orthodoxy : the legal empowerment alternative

Golub, Stephen | 2003
  • Author(s): Golub, Stephen
  • Publisher: Carnegie endowment for international peace
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women's rights, empowerment, legal aspects, ecuador, south africa, philippines, nepal, senegal, bangladesh
The international aid field of law and development focuses too much on law, lawyers, and state institutions, and too little on development, the poor, and civil society. This paper argues that an alternate, more balanced approach, namely legal empowerment, is often preferable.
 

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